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8:05 PM ET, July 18, 2006

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Reuters:
Iran's Hizbollah says ready to attack US, Israel  —Text+TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Hizbollah, which claims links to the Lebanese group of the same name, said on Tuesday it stood ready to attack Israeli and U.S. interests worldwide.  —  "We have 2,000 volunteers who have registered since last year …
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Washington Post:
Push Made for U.N. To Go Into Lebanon  —  ST. PETERSBURG, July 17 — U.N. and European leaders pressed Monday for an international peacekeeping force to be sent to Lebanon to defuse the conflict with Israel, an approach that ended in failure two decades ago when a U.S.-led foreign troop contingent was driven out by violence.
Agence France Presse:
Lebanon civilian deaths morally not same as terror victims — Bolton  —  UNITED NATIONS (AFP) - US Ambassador John Bolton said there was no moral equivalence between the civilian casualties from the Israeli raids in Lebanon and those killed in Israel from "malicious terrorist acts".
Rowan Scarborough / Washington Times:
Israel capable of air strike on Iran
Discussion: Power Line and OPFOR
Firas Al-Atraqchi / Aljazeera:
'Lebanon crisis an international conspiracy'
Discussion: A Blog For All
Major 'Y / Jerusalem Post:   In the cockpit  —  Major 'Y', an F-16 pilot in the Israeli Air Force …
David Aaronovitch / Times of London:
A heavily armed militia attacks your territory.  What are you meant to do?
Scott Wilson / Washington Post:
In Nazareth, Arab Israelis Now at Risk
Discussion: Israel Matzav and lgf
Think Progress:
Brownback Holds Up Drawing Of Embryo, Asks 'Are You Going To Kill Me?'  —  Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) is leading the opposition to the H.R. 810, the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act.  On Saturday, the Washington Post reported that Brownback has used a deceptive and false report …
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Dana Milbank / Washington Post:
Stem Cell Debate Wedges Bush Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Laurie Kellman / Associated Press:
Senate approves embryo stem cell bill
Democrat Taylor Marsh Blogs Politics:
Bush Gropes Germany's Merkel  —  President Bush took time out from the G-8 Summit to grope German Chancellor Angela Merkel.  I'm not kidding.  It boggles the mind.  (Update: John at C&L has the video up.)  —  Via Mash (by the way, great get!), we get photos via a friend of his in Germany.
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John Amato / Crooks and Liars:
Presidential Groping  —  She sure doesn't seem to happy about it to me. … Video-WMP Video-QT later  —  This has been an awful trip for Bush to say the least on so many levels.  Please list all the problems he has had in the comment section. … Lindsay: Every woman will recognize …
Duncan Black / Los Angeles Times:
Why the Left Is Furious at Lieberman  —  A blogger's blast at the embattled Connecticut senator.  Hint: It's not just Iraq.  —  SOME TIME AFTER having lunch in Iraq with the junior senator from Connecticut, Time magazine Baghdad bureau chief Michael Ware told an interviewer …
Reuters:
NYT to cut paper size and close plant  —Text+NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times Co. (NYT.N: Quote, Profile, Research) plans to narrow the size of its flagship newspaper and close a printing plant, resulting in the loss of 250 jobs, the company said in a story posted on its Web site late on Monday.
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Debbie Schlussel:
Most Americans in Lebanon Are Hezbollah Supporters; U.S. Taxes Shouldn't Fund Their Return  —  **** AS READ ON THE AIR TODAY BY RUSH LIMBAUGH—THANKS, RUSH!  **** ALSO, SCROLL DOWN FOR UPDATE ****  —  One thing is lost in all the press coverage of the whining Americans who went to Lebanon …
Monica Davey / New York Times:
Chicago Weighs New Prohibition: Bad-for-You Fats  —  CHICAGO, July 14 — In Grant Park, this city's front yard along Lake Michigan, a dizzying pack of people filled the streets evening after evening, all holding their gazes firmly on the little plates in their hands, loaded with catfish beignets …
New York Times:
Car Bomb Kills Dozens Near Shiite Shrine in Iraq  —  BAGHDAD, Iraq, July 18— A bomb killed 53 people and wounded more than 100 in the Shiite city of Kufa today, a day after at least 48 people died as dozens of gunmen suspected of being Sunni Arabs went on a rampage through a mostly Shiite market area …
Jim Abrams / Associated Press:
House Rejects Gay Marriage Ban Amendment  —  The House on Tuesday rejected a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, ending for another year a congressional debate that supporters of the ban hope will still reverberate in this fall's election.  —  The 236-187 vote for the proposal …
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ and Iowa Voice
A. O. Scott / New York Times:
Avast, Me Critics!  Ye Kill the Fun: Critics and the Masses Disagree About Film Choices  —  Johnny Depp in "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest."  Despite negative reviews, the film earned $136 million in its first weekend.  —  Let's start with a few numbers.
Caroline Drees / Reuters:
FBI eyes Hizbollah in US as tensions with Iran rise  —  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The FBI is trying to ferret out possible Hizbollah agents in the United States amid concerns that rising U.S.-Iranian tensions could trigger attacks on American soil, FBI officials said.
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